clavare

clavare [LL] 1 to nail, nail up, fasten w. nails. b to rivet (armour). 1254 barillos et saccos ‥ integros, ~atos et sigillatos RGasc I 485 (cf. CalPat 315); complantata / cruci cum clavata / caro quatitur J. Howd. Sal. 22; 1318 in capite trabis ‥ molendini cum ligno ~ando Ac. Man. Cant. (Adisham); 1388 catalla simul cum cista et libris ‥ sic inclusis et ‥ ~atis IMisc 239/10 r. 2; 1440 pro clavis ad ~andum le evyston Cant. Coll. Ox. II 158; to nayle, ~are CathA.  b 1322 [pro] ij paribus ‥ cirotecarum de novo ~andis Rec. Leic. I 340; 1343 Jacobo le Armurer ‥ pro dictis corsettes clovandis et reparandis KR Ac 290/23 m. 3 (cf. ib.: pro xvj corset’ de plat’ ‥ clavand’ [corr. from clovand’]). 2 [CL] (p. ppl.) studded w. nails. clabatum, gebyrded GlC C 489; 9‥ ~atae, bebyrde WW; hastilia ~ata et curta ad pungendum vel ad retrahendum seu ad percutiendum G. Herw. 326b. 3 [CL] (p. ppl.) bordered. manicae sericis ~atae Aldh. VirgP 58; 747 (v. clavus 4); Ord. Vit. II 9 (v. colobium). 4 (p. ppl.) indicated or called, or ? f. lfor clamatus). 9‥ ~ato, signato, getacnod, ‥ ~atae, ‥ bestefnde WW.